before rescue ##rs could arrive . cooke complained to sultan ki ##ba ##b sa ##hri ##yal at ku ##ta wat ##o and the captured sailors were eventually recovered , although not before sy ##bill ##e and fox had sailed for china to escort the merchant convoy back to india . = = aftermath = = cooke ' s op ##port ##uni ##stic diversion had determined that the spanish forces in the philippines posed no immediate threat , although the mission had cost 18 lives : admiral rain ##ier later expressed his satisfaction with the outcome in a letter to the admiralty . more might have been achieved with reinforcements : historian c . north ##cote parkinson suggests that had cooke ' s squadron united with resistance together they
before rescuers could arrive. cooke complained to sultan kibab sahriyal at kuta wato and the captured sailors were eventually recovered, although not before sybille and fox had sailed for china to escort the merchant convoy back to india. = = aftermath = = cooke's opportunistic diversion had determined that the spanish forces in the philippines posed no immediate threat, although the mission had cost 18 lives : admiral rainier later expressed his satisfaction with the outcome in a letter to the admiralty. more might have been achieved with reinforcements : historian c. northcote parkinson suggests that had cooke's squadron united with resistance together they